Performance to benefit abuse shelter

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TROY — Music, dance, art, and theater are coming to the Mayflower Arts Center, 9 W. Main St., Troy, on April 1, at 7 p.m.

Sponsored by Edison State Community College and the center as a benefit for the Family Abuse Shelter of Miami County, the program will feature 17 women from the college and the community displaying their talents as they salute girls and women.

During the reception, which is from 5 until 7, musicians Nancy Shuler, Kathryn Ellicott, Mindy Bach and Shannon Cothran will entertain guests with classic and contemporary musical selections.

The gallery at the center will feature the work of Troy artist Nancy Shuler and Piqua artist Linda Hamilton. At 7 p.m., the show will begin with a lyrical dance by Troy native Savannah Harvey followed by a viola solo by Shannon Cothran, also a Troy native and a senior at Troy High School.

For the evening’s main event, 13 area college students/employees and community leaders will take the stage and deliver monologues in answer to poet Muriel Rukeyser’s question “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?” Dr. Vivian Blevins and students in her Women in Theatre class at Edison State, Mindy Bach, Savannah Harvey and Rachel Darrow wrote the monologues. Stories in the monologues feature diverse themes from sex trafficking to emotional and physical poverty to communication lapses.

The final act of the evening will feature Dayton musician Brenda Cobbs-Allen in a mini concert presenting songs from the repertoires of Tina Turner and Aretha Franklin.

Audience members who desire to do so can share their own stories.

Tickets cost $10 and are available at the door or online at www.mayflowerartscenter.com.

For information, email [email protected] or call 937-778-3815.

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